¶ Club of Rome: Limits to Growth
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At the opening press conference of… Habitat, I was asked to make a public statement regarding the Club of Rome and its 1973 publication of ‘The Limits to Growth.’ I made the statement that the Club of Rome had a few weeks earlier–April 1976–issued a complete public reversal of its limits-to-growth concept. It had done so in a meeting in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. There had been so many contradictions of the Club of Rome’s 1972 pronouncement of the limits to growth that they had completely reconsidered their position. I said at the press conference that I felt that the Club of Rome’s first statement was schemingly funded by vastly wealthy interests who were continuing to do what money had done in the past: i.e., to rationalize selfishness. Assuming the political concept of fundamental inadequacy of life-support for all the humans around our planet, selfishness had been able to say, ‘I have those for whom I’m responsible and because there is not enough life-support for all, I am obliged to do various things that are utterly and completely selfish.’
‘I felt that the Club of Rome’s pronouncement of the ‘Limits to Growth’ represented history’s last attempt on the part of’
